Marginalia - Issue #12

Five unverified facts that inspired me to circle them or write them down + weekly highlights from Holy Fool Productions.

Since 1946, French specialists have removed 18 million artillery shells from and around the battlefield of Verdun. They estimate that there remain 12 million more. The biggest shells are duds that are buried so deep in the earth that they won’t even make their way to the surface for 60 more years. — Blueprint for Armageddon | Hardcore History

The brain rewires continually for tasks needed—through actually change in anatomy. London researchers found that the posterior hippocampus was larger in taxi drivers. The posterior hippocampus stores and manipulates representations of a person’s surroundings—a literal mind map . The long the taxi drivers were on the job, the larger that region of the brain was. — Nicholas Carr, The Shallows

A list of recommended books for listeners to further their understanding of our rambling conversations. These are books that have shown up many times in the podcast over the years, and will probably come up again and again in the future.

going back to doing interviews . film accents . black cinema . the importance of intent . how the nature of conversation has changed
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